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Charles James Faulkner (1806-1884) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1681
Overview Correspondence of Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), who was a Martinsburg attorney, Virginia legislator, member of Congress, and ambassador to France during the James Buchanan administration. Subjects include national and Virginia-West Virginia politics, 1827-1876, and foreign affairs, 1868-1876. Other subjects include the French Colonization Society, the slave controversy, Maryland-Virginia boundary dispute, Virginia Revolutionary debt claims, disposal of the Harpers Ferry Armory, Chesapeake...
Dates: 1786-1878
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Daniel Lefever, Lawyer, Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 3011
Overview

Seven letters to John M. Speek from Daniel Lefever who as a lawyer was acting as an agent for Speek in selling his property in the vicinity of Martinsburg. In a couple of letters he mentions damages done to the buildings by the Union forces occupying them.

Dates: 1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hartley Brothers Civil War Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 0601
Overview Letters to their family in Ohio from James M. Hartley and Thomas J. Hartley. James M. Hartley served in the Ohio 116th. Volunteer Infantry, Company B stationed during the Civil War at Romney, WV; Winchester, VA; Sharpsburg, MD; Martinsburg, WV; and Richmond, VA. Thomas J. Hartley was mustered into an unidentified Ohio regiment at Camp Ripley, OH and served in Stanford, KY and Nicholasville, KY. These letters, most being from James M. Hartley, reflect conditions in the U. S. Army in the field...
Dates: 1862-65
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Jacob H. Gerbrick, Photographer, Records

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Collection Number: A&M 2947
Overview The photographs and negatives of the Gerbrick Studio of Martinsburg whose most prominent proprietor was Jacob H. Gerbrick. There are group and individual portraits as well as pictures of business and industry, modes of transportation, schools, churches, residences, clubs and organizations, and social events. These photographs reflect life in Martinsburg and the extreme Eastern panhandle, including unique events such as strikes or floods, annual events such as festivals and parades, and...
Dates: 1857-1974
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lincoln's Mock Funeral in Martinsburg, Civil War Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 3378
Overview

Two letters authored by Corporal John Service (Company A, 18th Connecticut) from Martinsburg describing eloquently and in some detail how citizens and soldiers celebrated the end of the Civil War, and mourned over the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. (4/15/1865, four pages, incomplete) (4/25/1865, six pages, complete).

Dates: 1865
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Martinsburg Records

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Collection Number: A&M 2789
Overview

Includes minute books of the Martinsburg Board of Trustees (1813-1857), the Council of the Corporation of Martinsburg (1857-1862, 1865-1894), and the City Council (1894-1981). There are also ordinance books, 1870-1981.

Dates: 1813-1981
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mic Fries, Collector, Three Group Photographs of Sunday School and Employees in Martinsburg

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Collection Number: A&M 3757
Overview

Three large group portrait photographs of a Sunday school and of business employees in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Two photos are of the Sunday school of the Bethel Pentecostal Tabernacle Church, ca. 1950 and 1960.; and one photo is of the employees of the Perfection Garment Company, October 1948. Two of these portraits are cirkut photos; one of these photos was created by the Gerbrick Studio of Martinsburg, W. Va.

Dates: 1948-1960
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mrs. G.H. Fisher, Collector

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Collection Number: A&M 2379
Overview

Collection consists of assorted newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and brochures relating mostly to the history of West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland. See inventory folder for list of file folder headings.

Dates: 1920-1965
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robert L. Pemberton (1860-1944) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0278
Scope and Contents Letters, mainly incoming correspondence, speeches, and printed materials of R.L. Pemberton, for many years editor of The St. Marys Oracle. Correspondents include A.I. Boreman, G.W. Atkinson, Robert A. Armstrong, Louis Bennett, John J. Cornwell, W.E. Glasscock, H.C. Greer, P.I. Reed, Louis Johnson, and Homer A. Holt. The correspondence concerns politics and Pemberton's activities with newspaper associations in West Virginia. Included are religious pamphlets,...
Dates: 1880-1944; Majority of material found within 1891-1944
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Robinson Family Manuscripts

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Collection Number: A&M 2662
Overview

Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.

Dates: 1847-1883
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Andrews, Matthew Page, 1879-1947 1
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 1
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Belknap, William W. (William Worth), 1829-1890 1
Bennett, Louis. 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Brown, John. 1
Browning, Orville Hickman, 1806-1881 1
Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 1
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Association 1
Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 1
Council of the Corporation of Martinsburg (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1
Cox, Samuel S. 1
Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864 1
Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891 1
Evarts, William M. 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Fisher, Mrs. G. H., Collector 1
French Colonization Society 1
Fries, Mic, Collector 1
Garrett, John W. 1
Geary, John W. 1
Gerbrick family 1
Gerbrick, Jacob H. 1
Glasgow, J. Ewing. 1
Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925 1
Greer, H.C. 1
Harpers Ferry Armory (U.S.) 1
Hartley Brothers 1
Hartley, James M. 1
Hartley, Thomas J. 1
Hartley, William J. 1
Hendricks, Thomas A. (Thomas Andrews), 1819-1885 1
Hewitt, Abram S. 1
Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904 1
Holliday, Geo. H. (George Hayes), 1847-1919 1
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 1
Ison, Willey Owens. 1
Jacob, John Jeremiah. 1
Jennings, John. 1
Johnson, Louis. 1
Johnson, Reverdy, 1796-1876 1
Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870 1
Knott, J. Proctor (James Proctor), 1830-1911 1
Lefever, Daniel 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
Long, D.I. 1
Martin, Alexander. 1
Martinsburg (W. Va.). Board of Trustees 1
Martinsburg (W. Va.). City Council 1
Mason, James M. 1
Mathews, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1834-1884 1
Mercer, Charles F. 1
Morgantown Female Collegiate Institute 1
Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916 1
Ohio River Salt Company (Middleport, Oh.) 1
Ohio River Valley Railroad Company 1
Palmer family 1
Palmer, Jewett. 1
Palmer, Saida Scott. 1
Pemberton, Robert Landon, 1860-1944 1
Pendleton, John S. (John Strother), 1802-1868 1
Perry, T.T. 1
Price, Samuel, 1805-1884 1
Reed, Perley Isaac, 1887-1973 1
Robinson family 1
Robinson, Eleanor. 1
Robinson, Hannah P. 1
Robinson, Helen M. 1
Robinson, James M. 1
Robinson, John A. 1
Robinson, William Johnson. 1
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 1
Scott, Theodore family. 1
Scott-Palmer family. 1
Service, John. 1
Shepherd College 1
Silliman, Benjamin. 1
Slidell, John. 1
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874 1
Speek, John M. 1
Stanley, Wallace S. 1
Stevenson, W. E. (William Erskine), 1820-1883 1
Storer College 1
Strother's Hotel 1
Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868 1
Swann, Thomas, 1805-1883 1
Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831 1
United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 18th (1861-1864). Company B. 1
United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 36th (1861-1865). Company G 1
United States. Congress 1
Virginia Central Railroad Company 1
West Virginia University 1
Wharton, James E. (James Edwin), 1809-1881 1
Whig Party (U.S.) 1
Willey, Waitman T. (Waitman Thomas), 1811-1900 1
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